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How to incubate a winning innovation program

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This is why innovation programs have become so critical to sustaining the success of enterprises. Then in 2016, Google beat Internet Explorer with its Chrome browser, attaining this success on the strength of Google’s superior search technology. Innovation programs spur change – even to an organization’s own values.

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With fresh capital, Symend aims to build a better debt collection system

TechCrunch

A 2016 whitepaper from the Association of Credit and Collection Professionals International found that debt rose from $150 billion to over $600 billion in the previous five years. ” With fresh capital, Symend aims to build a better debt collection system by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

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“Digital is a powerful business lever,” says Alessandra Luksch, director of the Digital Transformation Academy Observatory at Politecnico di Milano, which has been mapping trends in ICT spending by Italian organizations since 2016. “In

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Accounting platform Synder raises $2M to automate e-commerce bookkeeping

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Though the round was acquired before going into the accelerator program, the Belarus-based pair wanted to wait to publicly share the milestone. It was originally founded as CloudBusiness in 2016 and developed accounting automation and management of business finances for small and mid-size businesses.

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Nigerian fintech of the unbanked Bankly raises $2M led by Vault and Flutterwave

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Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria. In the absence of a banking system nearby or a disregard for one, the unbanked resort to these traditional systems because they work completely offline.

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Mantra Health raises $22M to scale its digital mental health clinic for young adults

TechCrunch

Mantra’s care program has been deployed on 52 campuses across the country, including Penn State, Miami Dade College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Gaussen says he has a sibling who dropped out of college in 2016 due to mental health issues and saw firsthand how difficult it was to find an appropriate provider.

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What is a liquid neural network, really?

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A differential equation describes each node of that system,” the school explained last year. With the closed-form solution, if you replace it inside this network, it would give you the exact behavior, as it’s a good approximation of the actual dynamics of the system. Want the top robotics news in your inbox each week?

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